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Hotel hallway photos that are nothing like the original Overlook Hotel from The Shining

Hotel hallway photos that are nothing like the original Overlook Hotel from The Shining

Instagram photo by @lax2nrt

Hotel hallways and the photos people take have come a long way since Stanley Kubrick’s original horror hallway scene in the classic Jack Nicholson film The Shining. RoomCritic has found 10 stunning hotel hallway photos (or the modern day equivalent) from the RoomCritic photo archives and the #roomcritic Instagram tag gallery that are anything but scary.

Photo by Stanley Kubrick

The Overlook Hotel (The Shining, 1980) – The original scary hotel hallway.

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